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  • THE SEAS
    THE SEAS
    SAMANTHA HUNT
    "The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." Maggie Nelson "[It] blew me away because of the beauty of the language . . . I found myself highlighting about 85% of the book for the language. It is so beautifully written" Jodi Picoult Moored in a coastal fishing town so far nor...
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    12,50 €

  • THE PISCES
    THE PISCES
    MELISSA BRODER
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Frank, provocative and brilliant' INDEPENDENT 'Utterly mesmerising' TATLER 'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves' ELLE 'Laugh-out-loud funny' i...
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  • THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL
    THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL
    ELIF SHAFAK
    From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and...
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF INVISIBLE BOY
    THE ADVENTURES OF INVISIBLE BOY
    DOOGIE HORNER
    "It's his first day at a new school, and Stanley wishes he could disappear. He can hardly believe it when, after a big spill at the science fair, POOF! Stanley is invisible! It's awesome! He can do anything he wants, and no one will know! But Stanley isn't the only one who turned invisible. The inventor of the potion is not happy about the accident and takes his anger out on ki...
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  • THE ART OF HAPPINESS
    THE ART OF HAPPINESS
    DALAI LAMA XIV BSTAN-'DZIN-RGYA-MTSHO / HOWARD C. CUTLER
    The Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama's eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler's western perspective. Covering all key areas of human experience, they apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental freedom. For the many ...
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  • CHARLES DICKENS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    CLAIRE TOMALIN
    Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful ...
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  • THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    EDWARD GIBBON
    Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes three and four, Gi...
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    27,50 €

  • SECOND TONGUE
    SECOND TONGUE
    YOLANDA CASTAÑO
    "Yolanda Casta?o writes love poems which are not tearful. Her love belongs to mysterious strangers from different continents and languages. She is never pedantic. She loves skipping [...] between lines of her poems, between images and metaphors, between being frank and being mischievous. It's about singing all the way to Land's End, in good and bad weather.' Yolanda Casta?o's p...
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    13,70 €

  • ONE OF US IS BACK
    ONE OF US IS BACK
    KAREN M. MCMANUS
    From international bestseller, Karen McManus, comes the explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed One of Us... series. Life hasn't been easy for the Bayview Crew. First they had to prove they weren't killers. Then a new generation had to outwit a vengeful copycat. Now, it's beginning again. At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad joke: Time fo...
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  • TO KILL A KINGDOM
    TO KILL A KINGDOM
    ALEXANDRA CHRISTO
    Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. Hearts are power, and with the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. When a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own, the Sea Queen transforms Lira a human as punishment. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian's heart to the Sea ...
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  • THE HOUSEMAID
    THE HOUSEMAID
    FREIDA MCFADDEN
    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I''ll soon learn that the Winchesters'' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean t...
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  • HALFWAY TO HOLLYWOOD (REISSUE)
    HALFWAY TO HOLLYWOOD (REISSUE)
    MICHAEL PALIN
    Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best S...
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    18,75 €

  • IN LEAF
    IN LEAF
    ROSALÍA DE CASTRO
    An annotated, commented and revised translation of Rosalía de Castro's Follas Novas (1880) [New Leaves]. A contemporary version of the Erín Moure 2016 translation from the original Galician, traversed by the thoughts and links and memorations of the translator. A book of thinking, in which Rosalía de Castro's own thinking comes more into the clear, and thus her relevancy to poe...
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    16,25 €

  • SIX OF CROWS
    SIX OF CROWS
    LEIGH BARDUGO
    The Grisha Trilogy introduced readers to the irresistible fantasy world of the Grisha - and now Leigh Bardugo brings us a new sweeping epic. Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy, Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his...
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    12,50 €

  • THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
    THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE / DARRYL JONES
    'I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.' Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post once a year without any clue as to the sender. When her intriguing correspondent requests a meeting, Holmes and Watson take on the case. Together the trio race through London to u...
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    9,99 €

  • MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!
    MACAVITY'S NOT THERE!
    T. S. ELIOT
    "It's rare that a poem not meant for a picture book translates so smoothly into the form, but Macavity does, coming in at the perfect length with ample opportunity for illustrations to help build out the story. . . .Like Eliot's verses, [Robins's illustrations] present a world of mischief and hilarity." The New York Times"Robins has infused new life into the trickster cat." Kir...
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    8,75 €

  • SPAIN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
    SPAIN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
    WAYNE H. BOWEN
    For Charles V and Philip II, both of whom expected to continue the momentum of the Reconquista into a campaign against Islam, the theology and political successes of Martin Luther and John Calvin menaced not just the possibility of a universal empire, but the survival of the Habsburg monarchy. Moreover, the Protestant Reformation stimulated changes within Spain and other Habsbu...
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    49,95 €

  • THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
    THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
    ANCIUS BOETHIUS
    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. The Consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner ...
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  • WOLFSONG
    WOLFSONG
    T. J. KLUNE
    From the bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door, Wolfsong is a story of love, loyalty, and family. Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that woul...
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  • THE NOTHING
    THE NOTHING
    HANIF KUREISHI
    One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab's bedroom which is next to mine. The Nothing is Hanif Kureishi's powerful new work: a tense and captivating exploration of lust, helplessness and deception. Waldo, a fêted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill ...
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  • SUCH A FUN AGE
    SUCH A FUN AGE
    KILEY REID
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    12,50 €

  • JORDAN PETERSON: CRITICAL RESPONSES
    JORDAN PETERSON: CRITICAL RESPONSES
    SANDRA WOIEN
    The Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson burst into public awareness when he opposed the compulsory use of newfangled gender-pronouns. He has since published two best-selling books, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018) and Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021), and has become the leading public intellectual on social media. Although Peterson has an alm...
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    21,25 €

  • FIVE TUESDAYS IN WINTER
    FIVE TUESDAYS IN WINTER
    LILY KING
    'Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart' - Ann Patchett 'Masterful, surprising, and satisfying' - Madeline Miller The stunning short story collection from the bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. A widow whisks her daughter away for a holiday she can barely a...
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    12,50 €

  • SUNBURN
    SUNBURN
    CHLOE MICHELLE HOWARTH
    ** Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction ** ** An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023 ** ** An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads' ** ** A Book of the Month pick for Diva, Irish Examiner, Novellic & Sainsbury's Magazine ** ** A Most Anticipated pick for PinkNews & Queer on the Street ** It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore...
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    13,75 €

  • THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
    THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
    FERNANDO PESSOA
    The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935. Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Co...
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    13,75 €

  • ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
    ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
    OMAR EL AKKAD
    One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more. He won awards for his ...
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  • BEIJING COMRADES
    BEIJING COMRADES
    BEITONG
    The sensational underground novel of homosexuality in late-1980s China that's been declared "one of the most significant Chinese novels of our time" (The New York Times). When Handong, the ruthless, wealthy son of Communist party officials, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architecture student, the attraction between the two young men is instant and all-consumin...
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  • CHESS
    CHESS
    BARRY MARTIN
    "In the dimension of reviving the mystique and wonder of chess, it is all too easy for those engaged in the rough and tumble of chess combat to overlook the mystery and infinite aesthetic profundity of its intellectual and iconic ethos. One example stands out... Barry has encountered many of the greats in person and across the board. Barry's insights into the relationship betwe...
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    19,95 €

  • FATE BREAKER
    FATE BREAKER
    VICTORIA AVEYARD
    Imagine The Lord of the Rings if the Fellowship had failed . . . What happens when all the heroes are dead and only the morally grey misfits are left to save the world? __________________ Tolkien meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this epic magic-filled YA fantasy series from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the global sensation Red Queen. 'World building to rival t...
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    13,75 €

  • SHATTER ME
    SHATTER ME
    TAHEREH MAFI
    A fragile young teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell by The Reestablishment a harsh dictatorship in charge of a crumbling world. This is no ordinary teenager. Juliette is a threat to The Reestablishment's power. A touch from her can kill one touch is all it takes. But not only is she a threat, she is potentially the most powerful weapon they could have. Juliette has n...
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